Celeste Collins represents that, over the course of her twenty-year-marriage, she has had to endure such brutal treatment at the hand of her husband, William Collins, that she has been "compelled to abandon & relinquish her home & property." She further claims that her husband, "being of notoriously prodigal habits," is squandering his property and she "apprehends" that he may also "sell, alienate, dispose of & deprive" her of "her property & effects." Mrs. Collins therefore prays for a separation of "bed & board" from her husband and that "ample, full & unrestrained ownership & enjoyment" of her four slaves be adjudged to her.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: St. Landry Parish Courthouse, Opelousas, Louisiana
